Thread: What to buy - Suggestions please.

Banana fingers strikes again!

Nuh, I don't like waiting for the camera to do whatever when I want to take a picture.

It turns on fast, and focus is pretty fast, too. It hangs about on other things.

Oh, and the way that when I take 10Mpixel pix for ebay stuff it takes hours to load them all up so I can edit them down.

Some days the machines just can't get it right.

Waiting, waiting, waiting.

Simon

Originally Posted by abaddonxi

Banana fingers strikes again!

Nuh, I don't like waiting for the camera to do whatever when I want to take a picture.

It turns on fast, and focus is pretty fast, too. It hangs about on other things.

Oh,

and the way that when I take 10Mpixel pix for ebay stuff it takes hours to load them all up so I can edit them down.

Some days the machines just can't get it right.

Waiting, waiting, waiting.

Simon

if you going to take pics for ebay just change the camera down to the lowest resolution.........

also i would of thought that a 10mpix camera would be able to write resonably fast, if it does it might be your media slowing you down depending on what your write speed it for the camera get an sandisk ultra11 or something like that that will help

Yeah, left my clever hat in the shop.

Sandisk extreme III card.

Originally Posted by abaddonxi

Yeah, left my clever hat in the shop.

Sandisk extreme III card

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definatly the camera slowng you down then......i would imagine the write speed will also quicken at lower res! as there is not so much information to write

Check out http://www.dpreview.com for lots of good reviews on P&S cameras. I'm a DSLR user myself so can't comment.

Slow write speed could be a card problem. SD Extreme III is a reasonable performance card, the Ducati and Extreme IV are faster but not to much.

Try formatting the card in the camera.

Also where did you buy this, local or from overseas/ebay?

If not local, then check on card's authenticity. There some a good info on eBay about counterfeit cards in the guide section. Two that might help are:
http://reviews.ebay.com.au/How-to-te...00000001287720
http://reviews.ebay.com.au/FAKE-SanD...00000001254852

Originally Posted by dm_td5

Slow write speed could be a card problem. SD Extreme III is a reasonable performance card,

the Ducati and Extreme IV are faster but not to much.

Try formatting the card in the camera.

Also where did you buy this, local or from overseas/ebay?

If not local, then check on card's authenticity. There some a good info on eBay about counterfeit cards in the guide section. Two that might help are:
http://reviews.ebay.com.au/How-to-te...00000001287720
http://reviews.ebay.com.au/FAKE-SanD...00000001254852

he needs to make sure that the card write speed doesn't really out perform his camera otherwise he is waisting his money, but i agree on the card from overseas bit!! cant say that i have ever had a problem but then i dont by rediculously cheap cards

Ah, we seem to have gotten off on the wrong foot.

There isn't actually any problem that isn't inherent to this particular camera, and digital snappys in general.

From the four or five I've had, none of them runs well at the maximum resolution.

The problem is that I've always used manual SLRs with manual focus lenses. You press the button and it takes a picture. The problem is more with my assumption that an automatic camera might do its thing anywhere near to as well as a manual SLR would.

Bought the camera from DCW-
Digital Camera Warehouse Australia - Discount Digital Cameras shipped Australia Wide - Home

Their prices are good and the gear is real, and they're just around the corner from me.

Simon